CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

CI/CD
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring CI/CD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 18 13
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +14
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 11 3 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 12.36% 3.85% 17.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.25% 4.05% 17.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 19
10th Percentile £412 £454 £510
25th Percentile £472 £497 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £574 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +4.32% -3.51%
75th Percentile £700 £657 £688
90th Percentile £704 £703 £775
Gloucestershire median daily rate £625 £563 £545
% change year-on-year +11.11% +3.21% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -48.57% -10.26% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucester

CI/CD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 74 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 93.26% 94.87% 98.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 55 100
10th Percentile £220 £378 £413
25th Percentile £346 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 9
10th Percentile £21.66 £18.00 £66.10
25th Percentile £22.97 £18.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -73.08% -
75th Percentile £41.95 £22.75 -
90th Percentile £52.03 £23.20 £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 £37.52 £75.00
% change year-on-year -4.04% -49.98% +130.77%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Gloucester

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Gloucester over the 6 months to 2 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Gloucester

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing CI/CD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) GitHub
3 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (18.18%) AWS
5 2 (18.18%) Serverless
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Stack
6 1 (9.09%) GCP
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (9.09%) IaaS
6 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) SonarQube
2 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) ARM Templates
2 4 (36.36%) YAML
3 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
3 1 (9.09%) Flask
3 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
3 1 (9.09%) gRPC
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
4 5 (45.45%) Agile
4 5 (45.45%) DevSecOps
5 4 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (36.36%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
6 3 (27.27%) High Availability
6 3 (27.27%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (27.27%) Migration
6 3 (27.27%) Scrum
7 2 (18.18%) Microservices
8 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
8 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Transformation
8 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
8 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Bicep
2 1 (9.09%) C
2 1 (9.09%) Go
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
3 6 (54.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (9.09%) CCSP
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (9.09%) CISM
4 1 (9.09%) CISSP
4 1 (9.09%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) NCSC
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
2 4 (36.36%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (36.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) NetApp
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow